Removing CoffeeScript entirely would be appealing to me as a potential
contributor. While I agree it is not a difficult language to learn, the
reality of it is that my billable time using Annotator won't support
non-billable time learning CoffeeScript to contribute to the core. I
know my way around CoffeeScript a bit, but not enough to contribute and
write tests efficiently, so it is a barrier for me.
That being said, I can see the advantages of CoffeeScript already described.
Steph
On 6/18/2014 5:02 AM, Gergely, Ujvari wrote:
I think Coffeescript is not a difficult language to learn. It was quite
easy for me to learn it.
It improves many cumbersome aspects of js.
I think it'd be a real letdown to use js instead of coffee.
And anyone can write pure js plugins to annotator.
Gergely
2014.06.18. 10:57 keltezéssel, Robert Casties írta:
On 18.06.14 09:20, Kristof Csillag wrote:
What do you mean by "switching"?
1. Deciding to accept new incoming JS code, alongside new incoming
Coffee code?
2. Deciding that all new incoming code must be JS?
3. Removing all the Coffee, and replacing it all with JS? (Either by
automatic compilation, or manually?)
Anyway, I am not sure if it is much of a barrier.
When I entered the project, making sense of the internals were
*significantly* more difficult to me than making sense of Coffee, which
was new to me at that time.
Same with me. Learning to use Coffee was a rather small hurdle (and it
makes writing good code easier) compared to setting up the build process
and understanding the moving parts of the code.
I think the build process does not become much simpler without coffee
and you would have to invent your own Javascript patterns for things
Coffee does if you wanted to convert everything to plain JS.
But I don't write much code in Annotator-core so everything you prefer
would be fine with me.
Best
Robert
On 2014-06-18 05:37, Randall Leeds wrote:
Anyone opposed?
Might lower the tooling and learning barrier.
I've been a defender of it and invested some time in the tooling but
I'd be okay moving away from it.
No thought of timing here, re 2.0 or anything. Just taking the
temperature.
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